What can replace mayonnaise: 10 recipes for easy homemade sauces

You may not eat mayonnaise with spoons, but doing cooking and baking without it is quite difficult. Salads, sandwiches, casseroles, and dozens of our other favorite dishes need dressing with this high-calorie sauce. Therefore, for those who want to switch to a healthier diet, it will be useful to know what can be replaced with mayonnaise. An alternative sauce should be no less tasty, but more useful. We offer you 10 recipes that will be useful both for salads and for roasting meat.

What can replace mayonnaise: the best homemade sauces

Let's not argue with that mayonnaise — a sauce beloved by many and replacing it simply with sour cream will not work. However, it's still not worth it to abuse it . In addition to high calorie content, store-bought mayonnaise contains:

• trans fats, which lead to  overweight, weaken the immune system and increase the risk of getting diabetes, cancer and  cardiovascular diseases;

• stabilizers and  thickeners

  , which often cause malignant tumors, neoplasms, obesity and poisoning.

Proper Diet — menu example for  every day Sour cream sauces

In its pure form, sour cream is quite suitable for vegetable summer salads. If you mix it with mustard and lemon juice, then this sauce can be seasoned with puff salads (Olivier, fur coat), and sour cream + adjika is suitable for roasting meat in oven.

For a more refined taste, a more complex recipe for sour cream and soy sauce is also suitable:

200 g sour cream;
1 st. a spoonful of soy sauce;
1-2 cloves of garlic;
a couple of drops of balsamic vinegar;
dill optional.
Chop the herbs and  garlic, beat all the ingredients with a blender.

Curd Sauce

Delicate sauce based on cottage cheese and milk is suitable for casseroles and potato dishes.

1 glass of milk;
100 g cottage cheese;
1-2 tablespoons of mustard;
salt, sugar, black pepper & cumin —  to your taste.
Mix the curd well with milk, add mustard and spices.

Olive dressing

Suitable for vegetable salads and fish.

2 st. spoons of olive oil;
1 teaspoon of mustard;
0.5 teaspoons of balsamic vinegar or lemon juice;
sugar, salt to to taste.
Mix all the ingredients well and dress your favorite vegetable salads with sauce.

Natural yogurt sauce

Such a sauce can be served with fried mushrooms and meat.

250 g natural yoghurt;
10 green olives;
1 tomato;
1-2 cloves of garlic, green onion.
Pour boiling water over the tomato and remove the skin from it, finely chop all the ingredients and whip until smooth consistency using using a blender.

Ideal for fish, meat dishes and seafood. To cook, you will need:

2 boiled yolks;
juice of half a lemon;
120 ml olive oil;
1 pickled cucumber;
1 clove of garlic;
5 olives;
salt, pepper to taste.
First, mash the egg yolks with a fork, add salt, pepper and lemon juice. Beat with a blender and add olive oil in a thin stream. Whisk until sauce thickens. Add chopped olives, cucumber and garlic.

Flaxseed Dressing

Universal dressing for any dish.

2 st. spoons of flax seeds;
2 st. spoons of lemon juice;
salt, pepper.
Rinse the flax seeds well and soak for an hour. Then drain the water, add lemon juice, salt, pepper and mix the ingredients with a blender.

The most dangerous foods for the heart Lemon dressing

Sometimes, baking recipes call for mayonnaise. It can be replaced with a very simple dressing of lemon and sunflower oil (equivalent to 100 g of mayonnaise).

1 h a spoonful of lemon juice;
70 ml sunflower oil.
Mix juice and sunflower oil, add to dough according to recipe.

Kefir sauces

Vegetable and meat salads can be dressed with salted kefir or prepare kefir-curd dressing:

3 st. spoons of cottage cheese;
5 st. spoons of yogurt;
0.5 tsp mustard;
3 boiled yolks;
a few drops of lemon juice, salt, pepper to taste.
Mix all the ingredients with using a blender.

Cheese Sauce

The cheese and cream based sauce will be a great addition to chicken and mushrooms.

200 g hard cheese;
200 g cream;
1-2 cloves of garlic;
salt, pepper, nutmeg.
Grate cheese on a fine grater, garlic — chop finely. Place the saucepan with the cream over low heat, heat it up, and then add the cheese. Heat the cream cheese mixture for about 2-3 minutes, salt, pepper and season with nutmeg and grated garlic.

Curry Sauce

This sauce goes well with poultry dishes and vegetable side dishes. The composition includes:

1 glass of thick natural yoghurt;
1 h a spoonful of curry seasoning ;
1 sweet and sour apple.
The apple must be peeled and cut into small pieces, mixed with yoghurt and add curry.

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